Could you live in this English pile?

Knole, near Sevenoaks in Kent, was established in the mid 15th century and
requisitioned in 1538 from Thomas Cranmer by Henry VIII, who in his
overbearing kingly way had taken a liking to it. Horace Walpole, too, was
impressed, describing the manor house's "beautiful, decent simplicity
which charms one". In the 17th century, the house was transformed by
the Sackville family from a medieval archbishop's palace into a Renaissance
mansion, complete with old masters bought on various grand tours. Vita
Sackville-West - author and inspiration for Virginia Woolf's Orlando
- loved Knole, writing that it "has a deep inward gaiety of some very
old woman, who has had many lovers and seen many generations come and
go...It is above all an English home. It has the tone of England."